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feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

Strom Cuzewon posted:

And it's like....is this supposed to be making fun of him? Because this is badass.

I mean, we were the bad guys in that movie (to the extent of assigning us literal Nazi warcrimes) so probably not.

Edit:again? 1946. Fascism is defeated forever. Benign social democracy reigns forever more.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:05

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# ? May 28, 2024 12:42

Apraxin: Feb 22, 2006; General-Admiral

thespaceinvader posted:

33%.

It always staggers me that loving 30% of adults in this godforsaken hellhole are racist shitweasels.

per the crosstabs, it was 50% of over-65s and 49% of Leave voters

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:06

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Jippa posted:

I see the pyramids are trending on twitter in regards to the colston statue thing. I'm disappointed more people aren't pointing out they were built by aliens not slaves.

I beg to differ. If I recall correctly, it was a bunch of woolly mammoths. :colbert:

I saw the documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzdHEhC8YI

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:09

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

thespaceinvader posted:

The USA is a wild place when it comes to making drinks with boiling water, because at least in part electric kettles over there suck rear end because of the lower voltage electrical supply.

We settled on 240v mains supply *because* we wanted our tea as fast as possible. We keep whole Welsh mountains full of spare volts to make sure that tea is available in sufficient quantities and speed after great national moments like football games and soap operas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:11

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1270011494080659456

country bad

also the party/leave/remain breakdown is interesting, in that it mostly confirms exactly what you'd expect (Tories/leavers are more racist than the average Briton, who is quite racist)

https://twitter.com/IWTheDarkPrince/status/1270012426151485442?s=20

also more lib dems disapprove of it being removed than labour

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:12

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

goddamnedtwisto posted:

We settled on 240v mains supply *because* we wanted our tea as fast as possible. We keep whole Welsh mountains full of spare volts to make sure that tea is available in sufficient quantities and speed after great national moments like football games and soap operas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA

with the slow death of linear television I wonder if these enormous spikes in demand are such a big thing anymore

although I suppose some people must still watch EastEnders live?

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:16

Borrovan: Aug 15, 2013; IT IS ME.
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Lib Dems in there with a strong & unsurprising lead on "we're against racism, but we're also against people actually doing anything about it"

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:16

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

XMNN posted:

also more lib dems disapprove of it being removed than labour

However more Lib Dems approve of it being removed than Labour, in conclusion the Lib Dems are a land of contrasts

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:18

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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goddamnedtwisto posted:

We settled on 240v mains supply *because* we wanted our tea as fast as possible.

When the UK switched from 240V to 230V to harmonize with the Continent, all that was actually done was the official tolerances in the ESQCR changed from 240V -10%/+6% to 230V -6%/+10%.

You can do the maths on that yourself to see the amount of :effort:

involved.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:19

Strom Cuzewon: Jul 1, 2010

feedmegin posted:

I mean, we were the bad guys in that movie (to the extent of assigning us literal Nazi warcrimes) so probably not.

Oh yeah that pissed me off. And the only British soldier to object was an American-born conscript, as though they couldn't even allow the possibilty one non-psychopathic Brit.

You'd think that movie would be a great teachable moment about seeing your country falsely demonised. But no.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:24

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Guavanaut posted:

I guess the physical sciences are the closest to forming a logical step, because you're doing lab work and writing reports in a similar method to what you will later do, but the levels of expected data analysis are very different.

Which reminds me of the best undergrad lab report ever.

Ha! My lab partner and I spent our compulsory lab hours (we were theoreticians) checking the theory, doing one result to get a ball park and making up the rest of the results within what we felt were acceptable error bar limits (and got great marks). The one and only time we actually did the experiment in its entirety and submitted an accurate lab report we got marked down. Never again.
Thankfully we were able to drop labs entirely from the second year of our degrees but then we had the computers ICL 1900 series and punched cards and that dreadful moment when you drop the entire pack of punched cards on the floor never to be sorted again.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:27

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

goddamnedtwisto posted:

We settled on 240v mains supply *because* we wanted our tea as fast as possible. We keep whole Welsh mountains full of spare volts to make sure that tea is available in sufficient quantities and speed after great national moments like football games and soap operas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA

i get drunk during sporting events like any normal person

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:29

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

BalloonFish posted:

Glorious.

It has been heartening to see some public names and bodies being on the right side when it comes to the events in Bristol. Alice Roberts may have been a less-than-useful uni tutor but she knows where to stand when it comes to statues of slave traders and all the people coming to her on twitter hoping for a Famous Face to hangwring about it.

I think the right-wing talking points bot has spewed up a new angle, because I'm suddenly seeing lots of 'concerned citizens' saying that pulling down the statue was racist because the statue was made of black gunmetal, they used a rope (so it looked like a lynching!) and most of the 'baying mob' were white.

Edit:

Thanks!

It isn't, it's just that the 'valid' history that needs to be preserved in aspic is the one that the people saying this are more comfortable with. Or (more charitably) it lets them come up with reasons not to confront the history they know would be uncomfortable to deal with.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that when the Colston statue was erected in the 1890s it was not without controversy, and there were op-eds in the local papers wondering if it was really a good look for a city that, after all, was also a centre of the Abolition Movement and even the late-Victorians could baulk at lauding a literal slave-trader. I think that's one of the reasons why the inscription makes zero mention of how Colston came by his money.

I'll try and find a source, but it might be a useful fact to drop into any discussions.

Possibly (I haven't fully absorbed the article yet):

https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/myths-within-myths/
(Article was written in 2018)

quote:

Edward Colston and that statue By Roger Ball

In the light of recent moves to place a �corrective� plaque on the statue of Edward Colston in the centre of Bristol and calls for it to be removed to a museum[1] it seems the time is right to investigate the origins of this monument and the claim emblazoned on it that it was:

Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city

Looking into the history of the statue demonstrates the same myth making that has characterised the popular memory of Colston in Bristol (until very recently).

etc lots of etc

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:35

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Apraxin posted:

per the crosstabs, it was 50% of over-65s and 49% of Leave voters

There's a difference now?

# ? Jun 8, 2020 17:44

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Olpainless posted:

God what a waste he is

Saw a comrade in the local party while I was out today - we maintained social distancing and both were wearing masks while conversing - he's really pissed off about the whole Labour thing -inaction on the leaked report, sworn fealty to the BoD, Starmer being such as drip. Asked me what if felt like not being a member anymore. His annual sub is up for renewal this month and he's really struggling to bring himself to renew.

He is an ardant 'foot soldier' when it comes to campaigning, has donated �00s to Labour and has walked many hundreds of miles around our rural constituency during the general elections, senedd election, local council elections through all weathers and just feels completely disrespected and un-valued other than a �generator now.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:05

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Guavanaut posted:

It's also paying people in company scrip and saying they can't quit, which happened in the West Virginia Mine Wars, and was ruled unlawful, and still apparently happens on UK farms.

Gulf countries also - to non-Westerners. Passports are confiscated by the companies on arrival, appalling conditions to live in, wages go almost entirely to either the company for 'board & lodging' or to repay some theoretical loan involved in getting them there (despite they will have used every penny of family's savings to pay someone in their own country for the necessary paperwork etc).

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:13

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1270029107431182336?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:16

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

dawn owns

https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1270038599048867840?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:16

kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

Rustybear posted:

perhaps everyone knows this after the events of yesterday but i didn't and it's worth repeating.

i always assumed these statues were contemporaneous or near enough, but they were actually mostly put up in the period shortly before WW1 during the first wave of end of empire panic, to inspire a new generation to go out and conquer. Robert Clive died in 1774 but his statue in Whitehall wasn't erected until 1912. It's almost almost perfectly analogous to the daughters of the confederacy putting up cheap statues of confederate generals everywhere in the south during the civil rights protests in the 1960s.

The thing with Clive was that no one was going to build a statue for him immediately after his death - he was reviled in Britain as much as he had his defenders and there multiple protracted attempts to impeach and reprimand him and his contemporaries for blatant misrule and open looting. When he apparently committed suicide many people said good he should have topped himself the fucker.

The lasting legacy of Clive as the arch-nabob of the company was Pitt seizing control of the company and the beginning of a shift towards direct administration of India to prevent people like him from existing again

It's practically impossible to defend having a statue of him for any reason

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:19

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1270029107431182336?s=20

this is in the replies and suggests the the labour against antisemitism lot went all out

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1269232117684285442.html

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:19

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

Guavanaut posted:

When the UK switched from 240V to 230V to harmonize with the Continent, all that was actually done was the official tolerances in the ESQCR changed from 240V -10%/+6% to 230V -6%/+10%.

You can do the maths on that yourself to see the amount of involved.

drat it now all my 253-254.4V appliances are useless

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:25

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

drat who could have suspected a US government funded election monitoring organisation would suggest a socialist won illegitimately to install a christian fascist

what a boner for those posters

https://twitter.com/ceprdc/status/1269812194260201473?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:26

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

lmao

https://twitter.com/TheKafkaDude/status/1270041464001777666?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:28

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1270029107431182336?s=20

my mp

wondering who I'm going to give my membership fee to now I'm not going to be giving it to labour

probably medical aid for palestinians as they keep sending me letters after I chucked them a few quid during the various bouts of israeli airstrikes/invasions. maybe in a year or so they will finally have got more in donations than they've spent on postage to me lol

also

https://twitter.com/klemmett_r/status/1269974212179111936

:eyepop:

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:28

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

yeah rip actual leadership

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1270046055187591170?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:36

Sloth Life: Nov 15, 2014; Built for comfort and speed!; Fallen Rib

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

If you live near a Home Bargains, they're selling 3 reusable white ones for £1.99 or single black neoprene ones (also washable) for the same price. I'm finding the latter very comfortable to wear.
(They're also doing full face shields for £1.99 now after I spent nearly £8 ea on ordering some online a couple of weeks ago!)
Pretty sure you'll find the same in somewhere like Wilco or BM Stores (same kind of places - cheap food, plastic boxes stuff).

Much obliged! will swing by tomorrow in the hope.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:39

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Hello, dear

Jose posted:

lmao

https://twitter.com/TheKafkaDude/status/1270041464001777666?s=20

Back of the net :smug:

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:46

thespaceinvader: Mar 30, 2011; The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!

XMNN posted:

my mp

wondering who I'm going to give my membership fee to now I'm not going to be giving it to labour

probably medical aid for palestinians as they keep sending me letters after I chucked them a few quid during the various bouts of israeli airstrikes/invasions. maybe in a year or so they will finally have got more in donations than they've spent on postage to me lol

also

https://twitter.com/klemmett_r/status/1269974212179111936

Mob rule is terrible.

We should have rule by rich unelected elites controlling elections... instead... of the majority?

I mean, I know he thinks that but

(Mob Rule being a bad thing has always amused me because it's always used to oppose large groups of people taking joint direct action, and not, say, armies invading foreign countries)

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:49

Flipswitch: Mar 30, 2010

My Facebook feed has had people outing themselves as all lives matter idiots and people deciding to die on a hill defending a slaver statue lmao.

"it's history, this is revisionism"

# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:59

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1270041133377302528?s=20

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:01

Skarsnik: Oct 21, 2008; I...AM...RUUUDE!

Not sure if this was already posted but our giant mayor death is a good lad

https://twitter.com/DeAthCardiff/status/1269944129934569472

Picton was quite the shitter

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:19

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

de'ath is a real name and not a pratchett invention?

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:22

jaete: Jun 21, 2009; Nap Ghost

Rarity posted:

The Bristol building formerly known as Colston Hall is taking down all its signage while they finalise the new name

I hope they call it Antifa Hall

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:25

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

Jose posted:

dawn owns

https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1270038599048867840?s=20

dawn does own

Jose posted:

yeah rip actual leadership

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1270046055187591170?s=20

RIP

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1270041133377302528?s=20

abolish the BBC

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:29

Red Oktober: May 24, 2006; wiggly eyes!

This is the only kind of firefighter v cop rivalry I'm interested in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsroqqvp2cc&t=52s. Welcome to the retro-future.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:30

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Red Oktober posted:

This is the only kind of firefighter v cop rivalry I'm interested in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsroqqvp2cc&t=52s. Welcome to the retro-future.

its wild rob lowe still has a career considering his child sex scandal. or not i guess

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:33

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

James Incel.

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:34

A big flaming stink: Apr 26, 2010

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1269946897000693760

:allears:

oh jezza....

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:39

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1270041133377302528?s=20

Dave Gorman does a show (repeated a few days ago) where he talks about how you can buy thousands of fake followers. He bought a thousand or so for an annoying friend who got him back by buying him a few thousand fake followers.

Jose posted:

de'ath is a real name and not a pratchett invention?

It's a Flemish name from a family originally based in the town of Ath in Flanders.

or,

quote:

...
It was also occasionally an occupational name for a gatherer or seller of kindling. In this case, the name is derived from the Old English word dethe, which in turn is derived from the Old English word dyth, which means fuel or tinder. Occupational names frequently were derived from the principal object associated with the activity of the original bearer, such as tools or products. These types of occupational surnames are called metonymic surnames.
...

Source: https://www.houseofnames.com/de-ath-family-crest

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jun 8, 2020

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:43

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# ? May 28, 2024 12:42

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Communist Thoughts posted:

dawn does own

RIP

abolish the BBC

fund the documentary crews and make that the entire output of the bbc

# ? Jun 8, 2020 19:45

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